Question

I opened eclipse 3.3.2. Now i need to get the current eclispe installation path. Is

there any eclipse API to get the eclipse installation path? Please help in this regard.

Thanks in Advance..

Snehal

Answer 1

Since eclipse3.4 and the p2 mechanism, you coud use org.eclipse.osgi.service.datalocation.Location, which represents a URL.

That interface includes **ECLIPSE_HOME_FILTER**, a constant which defines the filter string for acquiring the service which specifies the eclipse home location (i.e. ‘eclipse.home.location‘.)

But in eclipse3.3, just query the property value ‘eclipse.home.location‘, as in:

System.getProperty('eclipse.home.location');